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United States Patent | 6,186,579 |
Fussnegger ,   et al. | February 13, 2001 |
A body shell part for a motor vehicle body having a profile edge that is form-lockingly embedded in an elastic edge profile. The elastic edge profile has an elastically bendable detent nose profile arrangement which is form-lockingly locked onto an adjacent circumferential edge of the structural vehicle body part. A detachable securing arrangement is assigned to the detent nose profile arrangement for blocking the elastically bendable detent nose profile arrangement in its operating position reaching over the circumferential edge of the structural vehicle body part.
Inventors: | Fussnegger; Wolfgang (Tubingen, DE); Thoms; Volker (Calw-Hirsau, DE) |
Assignee: | DaimlerChrysler AG (Stuttgart, DE) |
Appl. No.: | 267114 |
Filed: | March 12, 1999 |
Mar 12, 1998[DE] | 198 10 643 |
Current U.S. Class: | 296/146.1; 296/146.5; 296/146.9; 296/191 |
Intern'l Class: | B60J 001/08 |
Field of Search: | 296/146.1,146.5,146.9,191 49/502 52/582.1 |
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